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User manual wrapped

nobody@vox.com(Marketing Canapes) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:52:43 -0700

For quite awhile, I have been involved with an inventor whose product should make our shores in late August. I can hardly wait to get one of the units to use. Anyway, about a week back, I contacted the gentleman to see how things were going. He told me he was under the gun to get the user's manual/instructions to the manufacturing plant. I guess they will do the printing right there.

In any event, he had forgotten that I offered my help in working the document over and I asked him to forward the file. Thank heavens the bulk of it was graphics. It was 6.5 megs in size. I spent a real solid night working it over and sending it back. It should be in China.

I'll have more on the Behmore 1600 home coffee roaster when it arrives. My small flid bed roaster is starting to make noises and I've done what hacking I can to keep it going. That reminds me, time to do a few small batches in the am - perhaps some Kenyan.

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Kona's small coffee farmers need your help -edited

nobody@vox.com(Marketing Canapes) — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:45:26 -0800

Hi, all, I thought I would pass this along to you. As you know, I roast my own coffee and Smith Farms is one of the firms I buy my Kona green beans from. There has been quite a battle brewing, pun intended, between the small coffee farmers and bigger commercial enterprises. It got to the point, in Hawaii, that the forces aligned on the other side of this issue got proxies in their dogs, cats and children's names to take control of the Kona Coffee Council and water down the Kona name. Please, PLEASE, take the time to register your concern on this issue. Click on the link in the message. And, please cut and paste this into a message of your own and pass it on now. Time is of the essence.

jim
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Aloha all,

Thank you for being a friend of smithfarms :-) . I am leaning on your kindness to ask you for this favor below and I would not do it if our chances weren't so good and also, the fact that numbers of names DO matter to our Legislature.

We are asking you for your help in helping all the Kona Coffee farmers in Kona. We have a big chance to succeed and Bob and I are begging for your help and here's why......

As I wrote in to our newsgroup

"Two great Legislators in our Hawaii State Legislature did indeed
introduce 2 Bills asking that the amount of Kona in a Kona blend, be
raised to 75% Kona coffee at least, to use the Kona name. We Kona
Coffee farmers have fought for this such an introduction for 14 (!)
years. A Bill in our House of Representatives and one in our Senate!

Now is the time to mobilize. You all care about coffee and we really
need your help.

We Farmers have an electronic petition on line and I am blatantly
begging that you take a second and go here
and sign our
petition.

Time Is Of The Essence as they may hear the bills this
week! Yikes!!!

Numbers of names do(!) matter and every one of you who signs it, will
be directly helping a farmer of Kona Coffee!

We have a huge nasty opposition of blenders who want to keep their
investment low and keep the Blend at only 10% real Kona. (The other 90% is probably
super junk.) Our opposition has paid lobbyists and many schmoozers who
are doing their work.

We looked into a Lobbyist but he asked for $24,000 and we don't have
it. The Kona Coffee Farmers is totally volunteer and certainly, non-profit!
So we are grassroots- actually coffee shrubs :-) and ever so hopeful but time is of the essence!

Thanking each of you in advance, for taking the time to sign
the Petition and for helping the Farmers.

If you would like further information about these bills, you are
welcome to visit http://KonaCoffeeFarmers.org and click on the link
"KCFA Legislative Programs/Blend Law Reform."

Thank you for your help. It is the power of the mighty (computer) pen at work. It really matters so much to all Kona Coffee Farmers!

Mahalo nui from very far away,
Cea & Bob

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Want a little flash with that cup of coffee?

nobody@vox.com(Marketing Canapes) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:39:13 -0800

Buzzfeed points us to an article in the Seattle Times about selling sexiness at drive-thru coffee places to compete with Starbuck's. Guess that means some girlfriends and wives may not like that coffee stop their other halves make on the way to work. Of course, this would mean there is an opportunity for male hotbods working shirtless in some for the distaff side to ogle at on their forays through the drive thru.

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Vending machines date back to 215 BC(E)

nobody@vox.com(Marketing Canapes) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:42:27 -0800

WOW! That makes vending machines about 2023 years old? There were vending machines for "holy water" in Alexandria's temples? Coming via Resource Shelf, NAMA has a time line of vending and coffee service.

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